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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:33:22 +1030
From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au>
To: Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
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Justin,

> are fast disappearing. You can even stick a non crossover cable
> between a 100MB pci card and a GigE one and it will work.

Thank Goodness -- I've worked in places where they INSIST on making
crossover cables the same length and colour as normal cables. Then you
go, "huh? samba/the network/the kernel" is not working until someone
with better eyesight finds the problem.

*death to crossover cables*


DSL
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